Table 4

Disciplinary rates for surgeons versus other physicians, by year (2000–2017)

Year	Surgeons			Other physicians			p value

	Total surgeons	Cases	Rate^* (95 % CI)	Total physicians	Cases	Rate^* (95 % CI)
2000	7826	2	2.56 (0.64–10.22)	49 977	35	7.00 (5.03–9.75)	0.166

2001	7769	8	10.3 (5.15–20.59)	50 777	56	11.03 (8.49–14.33)	0.856

2002	7781	8	10.28 (5.14–20.56)	51 631	50	9.68 (7.34–12.78)	0.875

2003	7584	8	10.55 (5.28–21.09)	51 870	68	13.11 (10.34–16.63)	0.561

2004	7769	11	14.16 (7.84–25.57)	52 843	53	10.03 (7.66–13.13)	0.298

2005	7866	3	3.81 (1.23–11.83)	53 756	65	12.09 (9.48–15.42)	0.051

2006	7961	7	8.79 (4.19–18.44)	54 346	68	12.51 (9.87–15.87)	0.374

2007	8157	8	9.81 (4.9–19.61)	55 525	69	12.43 (9.81–15.73)	0.526

2008	8236	9	10.93 (5.69–21.0)	57 204	45	7.87 (5.87–10.54)	0.368

2009	8556	13	15.19 (8.82–26.17)	59 545	53	8.9 (6.8–11.65)	0.084

2010	8721	7	8.03 (3.83–16.84)	60 798	42	6.89 (5.09–9.32)	0.708

2011	9148	9	9.84 (5.12–18.91)	63 381	47	7.42 (5.57–9.87)	0.437

2012	9347	17	18.19 (11.31–29.26)	65 795	66	10.03 (7.88–12.77)	0.029

2013	9565	16	16.73 (10.25–27.3)	68 109	58	8.52 (6.58–11.02)	0.017

2014	9735	16	16.44 (10.07–26.83)	70 170	56	7.98 (6.14–10.37)	0.011

2015	10 017	15	14.97 (9.03–24.84)	72 181	58	8.04 (6.21–10.39)	0.032

2016	10 179	21	20.63 (13.45–31.64)	73 884	91	12.32 (10.03–15.13)	0.033

2017	10 383	21	20.23 (13.19–31.02)	76 261	90	11.8 (9.6–14.51)	0.026

Total^†	156 600	199	12.59 (10.69–14.83)	1 088 053	1070	9.85 (8.88–10.94)	0.013

CI = confidence interval.
↵* All disciplinary case rates were standardized to 10 000 physician-years.
↵† The overall disciplinary rate for all physicians (all specialties) was calculated from the Totals column to be 11.2 cases per 10 000 physician-years.